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Published at October 31Nearest Neighbor Normalization Improves Multimodal Retrieval
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Released Date: October 31, 2024
Authors: Neil Chowdhury1, Franklin Wang1, Sumedh Shenoy1, Douwe Kiela2, Sarah Schwettmann1, Tristan Thrush2
Aff.: 1Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 2Stanford University

| Flickr30k retrieval | COCO retrieval | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Original | DBNorm | NNN Flickr | NNN COCO | Original | DBNorm | NNN Flickr | NNN COCO | |
| CLIP | 79.30 | 81.20 (+1.9) | 81.20 (+1.9) | 80.10 (+0.8) | 50.02 | 53.20 (+3.2) | 51.60 (+1.6) | 53.66 (+3.6) |
| CLIP ft. Flickr | 85.70 | 86.50 (+0.8) | 87.30 (+1.6) | 86.60 (+0.9) | 53.74 | 55.42 (+1.7) | 53.92 (+0.2) | 56.44 (+2.7) |
| CLIP ft. COCO | 82.10 | 81.90 (-0.2) | 82.80 (+0.7) | 82.70 (+0.6) | 63.74 | 64.72 (+1.0) | 63.88 (+0.1) | 65.26 (+1.5) |
| BLIP ft. Flickr | 93.40 | 95.70 (+2.3) | 95.20 (+1.8) | 94.30 (+0.9) | 72.26 | 78.28 (+6.0) | 75.90 (+3.6) | 78.30 (+6.0) |
| BLIP ft. COCO | 93.70 | 94.70 (+1.0) | 95.30 (+1.6) | 94.60 (+0.9) | 79.62 | 82.52 (+2.9) | 79.58 (-0.0) | 82.46 (+2.8) |
| ALBEF ft. Flickr | 92.40 | 93.10 (+0.7) | 92.60 (+0.2) | 92.70 (+0.3) | 69.82 | 74.62 (+4.8) | 71.06 (+1.2) | 74.44 (+4.6) |
| ALBEF ft. COCO | 87.30 | 90.50 (+3.2) | 90.00 (+2.7) | 89.30 (+2.0) | 78.60 | 80.54 (+1.9) | 79.10 (+0.5) | 80.68 (+2.1) |
| SigLIP | 89.00 | 91.60 (+2.6) | 91.30 (+2.3) | 91.30 (+2.3) | 65.32 | 69.14 (+3.8) | 66.80 (+1.5) | 69.86 (+4.5) |
| BEiT-3 | 89.10 | 90.70 (+1.6) | 91.80 (+2.7) | 90.90 (+1.8) | 61.12 | 68.94 (+7.8) | 65.66 (+4.5) | 69.12 (+8.0) |
| BEiT-3 ft. Flickr | 96.30 | 94.40 (-1.9) | 95.60 (-0.7) | 95.90 (-0.4) | 72.02 | 75.12 (+3.1) | 72.62 (+0.6) | 75.22 (+3.2) |
| BEiT-3 ft. COCO | 93.60 | 94.50 (+0.9) | 95.30 (+1.7) | 94.80 (+1.2) | 80.72 | 79.90 (-0.8) | 80.42 (-0.3) | 81.26 (+0.5) |
| BEiT-3 Large | 91.10 | 93.20 (+2.1) | 93.20 (+2.1) | 92.20 (+1.1) | 63.26 | 71.06 (+7.8) | 67.60 (+4.3) | 71.08 (+7.8) |
| BEiT-3 Large ft. Flickr | 97.20 | 96.80 (-0.4) | 97.20 (0.0) | 97.50 (+0.3) | 74.32 | 77.56 (+3.2) | 74.86 (+0.5) | 77.92 (+3.6) |
| BEiT-3 Large ft. COCO | 95.50 | 95.00 (0.0) | 95.30 (-0.2) | 96.20 (+0.7) | 82.10 | 80.88 (-1.2) | 81.98 (-0.1) | 82.72 (+0.6) |